To evaluate your creative thinking skills, take the following creativity test.

This test is one frequently used by psychologists to measure creativity. The test
is called a Remote Associates Test (RAT) because it measures you ability to see relationships
between things that are only remotely associated. Read the instructions carefully
before beginning the test.

Instructions: Look at the three words and find a fourth word that is related
to all three.

Example: What word is related to these three words?

paint doll cat

The answer is "house": house paint, dollhouse, and house cat.

Here is another example:

stool powder ball

The answer is "foot": footstool, foot powder, and football.

You have 20 minutes to complete the following items:

1.

call

pay

line

2.

end

burning

blue

3.

man

hot

sure

4.

stick

pal

ball

5.

blue

cake

cottage

6.

man

wheel

high

7.

motion

poke

down

9.

line

birthday

surprise

10.

wood

liquor

luck

11.

house

village

golf

12.

plan

show

walker

13.

key

wall

previous

14.

bell

iron

tender

15.

water

youth

soda

16.

base

snow

dance

17.

stop

kart

slow

18.

up

book

charge

19.

tin

writer

my

20.

leg

arm

person

21.

weight

out

pencil

22.

spin

tip

shape

23.

sharp

tick

tie

24.

out

band

night

25.

cool

house

fat

26.

back

go

light

27.

man

order

air

28.

bath

up

burst

29.

ball

out

blue

30.

up

around

rear

Check your answers with the following suggested answers. There may be other appropriate
answers, as well

1. phone

11. green

21. lead

2. book

12. floor

22. top

3. fire

13. stone

23. tack

4. pin

14. bar

24. watch

5. cheese

15. fountain

25. cat

6. chair

16. ball

26. stop

7. slow

17. go

27. mail

8. glass

18. cover

28. bubble

9. party

19. type

29. black

10. hard

20. chair

30. end

Normative Data

The following normative data were collected on university undergraduates. Calculate
the number you got correct and look up your percentile ranking.

Number Correct

Percentile

24-28

95%

21-23

80%

19-20

65%

16-18

50%

13-15

35%

10-13

20%

7-9

8%

1-5

1%

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